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Fyodor Dostoevsky Quote - The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
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Difficult Doer Easy Evil Understand
Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human.
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Human Mankind Nonsense Organism Possess Privilege Talk Truth
You can be sincere and still be stupid.
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Human Nature One Liner Sincere Stupidity
When reason fails, the devil helps!
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Devil Help One Liner Reason
A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.
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One Liner Proof Suspicious
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
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Compel Respect Self Respect Yourself
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Acknowledgement Conscience Man Punishment Suffering
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
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Extraordinary Love Man Passionate Suffering
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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Cease Distinguish Himself Lie Listen Love Man Respect Truth Yourself
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Human Being Life Man Mystery Need Philosophy Want
Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
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Calculation Count Deep Happiness Man Trouble
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Children Healing Soul
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
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Alone Loneliness Thought
I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
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Bow Humanity Suffering
Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.
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Break Pleasant Right Time Wrong
Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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Difference Indifference Kill Matter Moments Myself Wait

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